Failed to bring eth0 up

[lghman]

The only thing i can guess is that maybe there is something wrong with the tulip driver in the gentoo patched kernel?? Short of that I really dont know. I use a vanilla kernel on my system with the tulip network adapter. Anyone else have any ideas???

--sonik
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[termee]

I have a D-Link ethernet card... I'm gonna try that.

[termee]

Crud, now I get this:
modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting 8139too (/lib/modules/2.6.1-gentoo/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.ko): Invalid module format

Please don't tell me I have to recompile the kernel again

[lghman]

No, okay, something is seriously wrong here. Well, as far as I see it you have 2 choices, try a 2.4.xx series kernel or (what i would do) grab a vanailla kernel from kernel.org and use that. Its just hard to diagnose problems with kenels that have all kinds of patchs on them. (imo)

You get props on my end for not givin up though!

--sonik
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of a child and the feeble mentality of the average adult" --Freud

[termee]

Should i use genkernel or build my own? And should I enable support as modules or compiled in?

[lghman]

You should build your own, it would be better. I personally would compile them as modules, but the choice is utilmitaly yours.

--sonik
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of a child and the feeble mentality of the average adult" --Freud

[termee]

OK. I just noticed that my ethernet cable had come loose; I'll see if that's the problem before continuing. Thanks for the help BTW.

[lghman]

n/p I hope you get it working.

--sonik
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of a child and the feeble mentality of the average adult" --Freud

[termee]

Hmmm. I have hotplug installed, could this make a difference?

[termee]

Well I disabled hotplug and am recompiling the kernel again! I'm trying it on P4 mode; it might work. Should I load all of the tulip modules (if it lets me ) ?

[josh]

I might just be beating a dead horse here, but I had a lot of problems with ethernet when I started using Gentoo.

When you configure your kernel, make sure that processor thing is ok. (make sure it's set to your processor type). Then when I compile I do:

[termee]

OK, I've made progress. I can modprobe tulip, but how do I permanently install it?

[termee]

Yay it works! I had to put it in the autoload file! Thanks for all the help!